Where is My Mother? (Paperback or Softback)

Where Is My Mother? is the inspiring, true story of a motherless child who found the strength to speak truth to a dangerous world surrounding her.

Lorene Oyler was in middle school when she testified in court against her predatory father, and greatly changed the course of her life for the better. Her memoir offers hope to anyone, child or adult, who wants to tap their own unknown strength.

Lorene used her wits to escape peril, and decades later, used those same wits to find a mother she thought was lost forever-just not the mother she'd imagined. This remarkable memoir is full of surprises and flashes of good-natured humor, such as when Lorene's mother shows up to meet friends and family wearing a mink coat from Goodwill bedecked with pin-back buttons, or stops on the street to engage in conversation with a plastic bear on a car-wash sign.

By turns funny, poignant, and powerful, this is a memoir like no other. As Lorene says, "Come with me as I tell my story. Buckle up-it's a doozy!"

Lori Stark's long and varied career has always involved service. Besides being mother to six, over the years she's owned a day care in Redmond, Washington; worked customer service for a Seattle bank; acted as caretaker for her mother-in-law with Alz-heimer's as well as her own mother with autism; assisted custom-ers in a dress shop in Everett; and volunteered with the Assis-tance League in Everett, where she headed the cancer fundraiser. Finding that service to the very old and very young was where her heart lay, she enjoyed driving a school bus in Mukilteo for thirteen years. Central to Lori's life, work, and strength since childhood is her unwavering belief in God.

Cheryl Stritzel McCarthy's writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune. She lived in London for seven years, writing for global magazines. She graduated in journalism from Iowa State University and holds an MBA from City University in London. In 2019, she published her memoir Many Hands Make Light Work: A Memoir, the rollicking true story about growing up in a family of nine children in a college town in the 1960s and '70s. Today Cheryl ghostwrites memoirs for anyone with a story to tell. Where Is My Mother? is her fifth book.